Jeramy Thompson

Creating the Master Template is a fairly straight forward process and will walk through them here. In vCenter, create a new Virtual Machine Give the Virtual Machine a unique name that is easily identifiable Select the correct Guest OS and Version Configure the Virtual Machine with the following Settings: CPU - 1 or 2 is usually sufficient Memory - I would recommend 2GB or more since it utilizes a graphical interface Hard Disk - 16GB is enough for a testing deployment, however you may want to increase this based on you needs. Keep in mind these are disposable so dont go too crazy with the size of this. Network - This should already be configured for VMXNET3 adapter, but double check. This should be attached to a network that has 'static port bindings' with elastic port allocation' CD/DVD - You can point the VM to the ISO here, or do it after creation Video Card - In the 7.9 documentation there is a chart on changing these  , however in 7.11 it statues

In this Guide I will walk you through creating a Linux Red Hat 8 VDI desktop, with SSO for your Horizon deployment as an Instant Clone pool with the basic settings to get you up and running. Many of these settings are taken from the Horizon 7.11 documentation and Red Hat documentation. There were some teaks and clarifications that had to be made as neither were complete for this setup, so I putting it here to help those who may be struggling (as I was) to get this deployed. Here are the steps we will take in this guide: Create the Master Template Prepare the Master Template (optional) Configure USB Redirection (coming soon) (optional) Configure Smart Card Redirection (coming soon) (optional) Configure Desktop for Session Collaboration (coming soon) Install the Horizon 7.11 Linux Agent Configure samba and winbind Deploy an Instant Clone Pool Follow the link to go to step 1. Create the Master Template Create the Master Template

In this 4 part series I will walk you through a basic Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop as a Horizon View Instant Clones. This Setup is based on the Following: RHEL 7.5 vSphere 6.5 Horizon View 7.6 In this part we will go though the basics of setting the RHEL 7.5 VM in vSphere. In vCenter right click and create new VM Follow the Wizzard Give the VM a name, I tend to choose names that are easy to Identify the VM Select the compute of where the VM will Live Select the storage Select the compatibility (6.5 is the highest in my case) Make sure you select the OS and Version For the light usage of this VM 2GB of Memory and a 20 GB HD are just fine Make sure to select the ISO for instalation I have found that using 128 MB of video memory has work for me, your results may vary. Also make sure that you have chosen the VMXNET network adapter for your network. Follow the prompts to complete the VM configuration. Once its complete procee

Welcome to part 2 of deploying Red Had Enterprise Linux as Horizon View Instant Clones. In this section we will go through installing RHEL. As you should have already created the VM in part 1 , go ahead and power on the VM and open a console to the VM (I prefer to use VMware workstation , however a browser is just fine) Once the OS starts make sure to select "Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5", and hit enter. Next you are prompted for your language Next you will be taken to this screen. While its checking the 'Installation source' Make sure to set the Date and Time' Scroll down and click "Instillation Destination", for my super basic install, I chose to let RHEL auto configure partitioning. Click Done at the top left  No change your network settings. For whatever reason RHEL starts with the network disconnected. Update the Hostname at the bottom (easiest is to use the VM name), and click apply. Turn the network on, then click

Welcome to part 3 of deploying Red Had Enterprise Linux as Horizon View Instant Clones. In this section we will go through customizing RHEL and installing the Horizon Agent. At this point you should have already created the VM in part 1 , and installed RHEL in part 2 , go ahead and power on the VM and open a console to the VM (I prefer to use VMware workstation , however a browser is just fine) Once we have the VM on and we are consoled into the VM we are presented with a login screen. -Note that this shows the user we created during the install, It is optional but we will remove this from our linked clones as we dont want every one logging into the system to see this. Once Logged in you are greeted with the GNOME welcome screen. This would be helpfull if your users were using persistent desktops, however we don't want to see this every time a user logs in so we will disable this as well. Go ahead an open up terminal , and run the following to remove the GNOME wel